Originally Posted by Ewok

Laughlin has a bigger student load than the other UPT bases as well, mostly because the flying weather is traditionally better. Over the winter they can get behind on the time line due to low ceilings slowing down the contact and solo sections of the syllabus. Once they get too far behind they don't have the capacity to make up the backlog and they have to enroll a ghost class, or an empty class to use those jets and IPs to get the actual students caught up. We had to do this in 2009-2010 due to unusually long periods of low ceilings in Nov-Dec of 09. All the other factors listed above also make the problem worse and decreases the capacity to catch up without canceling a class.